Ride early Wisconsin trains and explore wood tracks, lantern signals, and rail innovations. Ride the rails with Doris Platt to discover Wisconsin’s early trains, wood-burning engines and wooden tracks ...

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Las Vegas found itself growing out of luck and good circumstances. Union Pacific finished construction of its new Los Angeles to Salt Lake City route in 1905. The halfway point ...

On Dec. 18, an Amtrak train traveling from Seattle to Portland, Ore. derailed on a highway overpass in DuPont, Wash. So far, the accident has left at least three people dead and has injured hundreds ...

The rapid expansion of America's railroad system in the 1800s and early 1900s was driven largely by a small group of powerful businessmen. Here we profile 12 of the most influential railroad magnates ...

Division of Transportation Railroad Reference Files / Series 4: Railroad Companies and Lines Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning ...

NMAH copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. "Between 1826 and 1858 the state of Pennsylvania built and operated the largest and most technologically advanced system of canals and railroads in ...